Slow game after update

Good evening guys,

So basically when attempting to start up FM other night (might have been Monday), I got the message that steam was downloading an update and extracting files etc. Since then the game has been running incredibly slow. Now I haven't got the greatest of laptops, far from it but before this update I could have all the playable divisions from England, Scotland, Germany, Spain and Holland without any real hinderance to the gameplay. Now though I can barely start a save with the playable teams from England without it taking 15mins to actually start the game with real lag between every continue.

Anyone have any ideas how to solve this problem and make the game run smoothly again?